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NEW YORK – If superhero Danny Rand really did have a fist made of iron, right now it would be rusting.

It’s creeping up on midnight on a mid-September evening in New York’s Central Park, and things are very, very wet. Wet for the stars of the upcoming Marvel TV series Iron Fist, that is – Finn Jones, who plays mystical martial arts champion Danny Rand, and Jessica Henwick, who plays Rand’s partner and ally, Colleen Wing.

For three straight nights, the pair – along with The Wire’s Ramon Rodriguez, playing a yet-to-be-revealed character who we won’t spoil here – have been shooting an intricately choreographed and thoroughly rain-drenched fight scene for the series, which debuts March 17 on Netflix.

This sealed-off section of the park in front of the famed Bethesda Fountain is abuzz with the show’s small army of crew, most of whom are intently watching video monitors or bustling to and fro in a beautiful, mosaic-covered passage near the fountain. From the dry comfort of the tunnel, we watch Henwick do take after take, her katana flashing in the moonlight-hued floodlights and her long, dark hair soaked by the towering rain machines perched on crane arms above her. Though Iron Fist will largely eschew so-called wire work, there’s some at play here, with harnesses helping the adversaries achieve supernaturally high leaps and kicks.

But Henwick’s spirits remain – if you’ll pardon the pun – undampened. On this final of night of the swordfight shoot, a snippet of which can be briefly glimpsed in the show’s latest trailer, the crew has finally relented and given her a wetsuit to wear under her snug, black costume.

“For the first two days they were worried you would be able to see (the wetsuit), and then finally it got to the stage where it was like, ‘OK, one of them is going to get hypothermia,’ ” says a soaked Henwick on a break in filming what will ultimately be the 12th episode of the 13-part series.

By joining the Marvel universe, the 24-year-old Henwick has scored something of a nerd trifecta – she played the whip-wielding Nymeria Sand in Game of Thrones and X-Wing fighter pilot Jess Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“I think, back in the day, the ultimate trifecta was considered Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and maybe Star Trek,” Henwick says. “It’s funny how Marvel is such a big player. It’s pretty cool. A lot of the people who like my work seem to be very happy that I’m joining this project, which is great.”

In part, she might have co-star Jones to thank for landing the role of Colleen Wing. Jones, probably best known as the ill-fated Loras Tyrell on Game of Thrones, jumped at the chance to help his friend Henwick practice scenes for her audition. But Henwick had already been pursuing the part of Colleen Wing with determination, and trained relentlessly with the show’s fight coordinators before cameras even started rolling.

“It was intense. It’s transformed my body over these past five months,” says Henwick. “I’ve never felt so physically capable as I do now.”

Despite the drama of the scene – there’s a major betrayal happening, that’s all we can say – the mood on set is light. Jones greets a group of visiting journalists and apologizes for the smell of piss in the passage: “It’s New York!” he says cheerily. Later, as an assistant director orders more water to be sprayed on Jones’ shirt, he saucily asks in his native English accent, “Am I wet enough for you?” Meanwhile, Henwick playfully bites the arm of the guy holding the audio sync clapper as they set up for a shot.

Apparently being a hero is a lot of fun.

“I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m never gonna be a superhero. It’s a million miles away,” Jones says during another break in filming. “But the more I read it, the more I felt it. I just knew this was the time and this was the role that was waiting for me.”

In the TV interpretation of Marvel’s Iron Fist comics, a young Danny Rand is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the mountains of Tibet which kills his parents. The 10-year-old Danny is rescued by monks and brought to the mystical city of K’un-Lun, where he trains in martial arts and eventually unlocks the power of the Iron Fist, an ability that allows him to destroy just about any solid object – or person – with a single punch from his right hand.

Upon returning to New York, the adult Danny is not exactly welcomed by the conniving Harold Meachum (David Wenham), the man who controls the billion-dollar Rand Enterprises corporation, to which Danny is the rightful heir. Mix in all kinds of other criminal activity and mystical enemies, and this freshly minted hero has his fists full.

Iron Fist is Marvel’s fourth Netflix superhero series, after Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. The stars of each show are currently busy working on The Defenders, the upcoming series that will bring the four heroes together as sort of a grittier, bloodier version of the Avengers.

“I’m looking forward to the dynamic that everyone’s going to bring on the show,” Jones says of The Defenders. Especially, he says, because of the way Marvel and Netflix are treating superheroes: with a sort of realism not found on the big screen.

The Netflix shows “are taking out that Hollywood aspect of superheroes,” says Jones. “There are so many superhero films coming out, and I think the majority of the audience are getting pretty fed up at how generic they are.”

Henwick agrees. “These are street-level superheroes, so it’s all about protecting the people in your city,” she says. “I think our shows are much more grounded, we’re not as fantastical as the films.”

Except, you know, for the whole high-flying swordfight in the moonlit rain thing. Not that we’re complaining.

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MARVEL’S IRON FIST – 7 THINGS WE LEARNED

We’re stoked for the martial arts mayhem of Iron Fist, as the latest Marvel and Netflix team-up punches its way into our streams and onto our screens on March 17. From an extensive visit to the show’s New York City and Brooklyn sets last fall and interviews with cast and crew, here are seven cool things we learned about the world of Iron Fist, and the heroes who inhabit it.

* IRON FIST WON’T BE WEARING HIS COMIC BOOK COSTUME

While hues of green and yellow will frequently be seen in the wardrobe of Danny Rand (Finn Jones), Iron Fist’s classic emerald tights and yellow mask won’t appear in this series, something showrunner Scott Buck recently confirmed in an interview with GamesRadar. As costume designer Stephanie Maslansky explains to us, the show’s understated costumes speak to “the evolution of Danny Rand himself.”

* THERE WILL BE LOTS AND LOTS OF FIGHTS

As a mystical martial artist, it only makes sense that Iron Fist will have plenty of action-packed scraps. Brett Chan, the show’s stunt coordinator and fight choreographer, says one melee will see Danny Rand (and perhaps an ally) taking on 30 baddies at once. And yes, there’s a corridor fight scene, sort of like the jaw-dropping one in the first season of Daredevil. Sort of. “It’s a little different,” says Chan. “It’s shorter, and I think it’s a little better.”

designer Loren Weeks proudly says the Rand Enterprises set is on par with Stark Industries in the Iron Man movies – “not easy to do on a television budget.”

* … BUT THEY DON’T LAST

Weeks, who has worked on every Marvel Netflix show, initially found it hard to see his sets torn apart once filming wrapped on each series. “On Daredevil, I was distressed. On Jessica Jones, I gritted my teeth. On Luke Cage, I said, ‘Go for it!’ ” he says. And blending the distinct visual vibes of the four shows into one series for The Defenders? “I think that’s going to be a big challenge.”

* FINN JONES HAD NEVER HEARD OF IRON FIST

“I kind of feel like Americans are more into comic books than us Brits,” says the London-born Jones. “Comic books weren’t really a part of my childhood, and so, no, I hadn’t heard of the comic book character at all. But as soon as I started reading about him, I knew this was the role for me, 100%.”

* JESSICA HENWICK IS A BIG DEAL IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE

Though her character has just a few minutes of screen time in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Henwick’s X-wing fighter pilot Jessika Pava – aka Jess Testor, or simply Testor – has been incorporated into several Star Wars canon comics and novels. “It was so much fun to film that, but the thing that’s been most rewarding is seeing young girls come up dressed as my character, like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t know girls could be pilots too!’ It’s the sweetest thing,” says Henwick, who plays the sword-swinging, butt-kicking Colleen Wing in Iron Fist. Will we see her in this year’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi or 2019’s as-yet untitled Star Wars: Episode IX? “It’s really up to the new directors.”

* WE COULD SEE A POWER MAN AND IRON FIST TEAM-UP… IF WE’RE LUCKY

In the comics, Luke Cage and Danny Rand join forces as Power Man and Iron Fist, heroes for hire. Given the amount of cross-pollination we’ve seen already in Marvel’s Netflix shows, will we be treated to a meet-up between Luke (Mike Colter) and Danny in this series before they fight side by side in The Defenders? Jones smiles, a little too secretively. “It’s possible,” he says.